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• SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & SOCIETY

  • Significant technological developments throughout history that shaped human civilizations
  • Intellectual revolutions
  • Science, technology, & nation building
• HISTORY PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE


  • Reflective & discursive thinking on the roles of science & technology in the pursuit of good life
  • Human Flourishing in science & technology
  • Technology as a mode of revealing
  • Human flourishing as reflected in progress & development
  • Good life
  • When tech & humanity cross
• SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGY


  • Contemporary issues & scientific realities that we must all deal with as part of a well-functioning society
  • Information society
  • Biodiversity
  • The nano world
  • Gene therapy
  • Climate change
• SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGY generates transforms (Tools, systems, processes)
• SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & SOCIETY is INTERDISCIPLINARY IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIETY
• SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, & SOCIETY AFFECTS
• Philosophers


  • MARTIN HEIDEGGER
  • CS LEWIS
  • ARISTOTLE
• Calculative thinking


  One orders and puts a system to nature so it can be understood better and controlled
• Meditative thinking


  One lets nature reveal itself to him/her without forcing it
• Technology


  • A mode of revealing
  • Bringing forth
  • Challenging forth
• Poiesis


  Humans only give form to what already exists without disruption and control
• The good life


  A life which will make us happy and content
• Everyone is in pursuit of the good life
• People's definition of the good life may vary and differ in the particulars
• There are universal truths about the good life that cut across our differences
• Nicomachean Ethics


  Aristotle's work that attempted to explain what the good is
• Enframing


  Humans control the productive process and, reduce it to something else, often inferior to its true essence
• Aristotle: 'All human activities aim at some good. Every art and human inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has been rightly declared as that at which all things aim.'
• Everyone is moving towards the good
• Eudaimonia


  The ancient Greek concept of "living well and doing well", which is marked by happiness and excellence
• Happiness is the ultimate end of human action, and it is pursued for its own sake
• Happiness


  Not the kind that comes from sensate pleasures, but from living a life of virtue and excellence
• Science and magic


  Are twins
• Virtuous actions require discipline and practice
• Activities contrary to virtue do not contribute to happiness
• Virtue


  The excellence of character that empowers one to do and be good, cultivated through habit and discipline
• Intellectual virtue comes from teaching, while moral virtue comes from habit
• The onward progress of science and technology


  Is also the movement towards the good life
• Science and technology are one of the highest expressions of human faculties, and can help us thrive and flourish in life if we ground ourselves in virtue
• Views of science


  • Science as religion
  • Science as credulity
  • Science as power
• Forget developing poor, it's time to de-develop rich countries
• Growth has been the main object of development for the past years, despite the fact that it is not working because we are overshooting, overusing our planet's biocapacity
• Heads of state are gathering in New York to sign the UN's new sustainable development goals (SDGs)
• The main objective of the SDGs is to eradicate poverty by 2030
• The main strategy for eradicating poverty is growth
• Since 1980, the global economy has grown by 380%, but the number of people living in poverty on less than $5 (£3.20) a day has increased by more than 1.1 billion
• Even at current levels of average global consumption, we're overshooting our planet's bio-capacity by more than 50% each year
• The global crisis is due almost entirely to overconsumption in rich countries
• Huge consumption does not necessarily equate to long and happy lives
• Our planet only has enough resources for each of us to consume 1.8 "global hectares" annually